Sunday, February 1, 2009

Mid Week Report.2

I found this amazing website called FECAL FACE. Here is a link: http://www.fecalface.com/nyc/

There is a recent post of photos on urban decay. The beauty is extremely inspiring, and it leads me to want to find settings like these myself and record their essence through either a collection objects found at the area or photographs of the various places...drawing these places...maybe all of these methods combined.
I feel that these places allow for an examination of decay and what that brings to the vision of a place. For example, I recently watched a video on the Auschwitz concentration camps, and how the museum is lacking funds to properly maintain the buildings and artifacts, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7842671.stm. What gets me is how a place that represents and holds memories/scars of horrific suffering, barbaric killing, and the perpetual sadness of millions needs to be preserved still, for it represents this very evil that never ought to be forgotten.
It leads me to question whether in fact, evil establishes the good, as the good establishes what is evil. How destruction and creation come hand in hand, and synthesize into a single essence/memory/ or moment.

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